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*Forestry*

This is a general guide for the Faculty, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, and Staff in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University.

Find books using the library catalog:

Start with 1Search to search for books, articles, and other resources owned or licensed by our library and others from across the Pacific Northwest. Here are some tips:

Keyword searching

Use the keyword search feature to start.

You can search for:

  • individual words (e.g. logging)
  • multiple words that may appear anywhere in catalog records (e.g. logging aerial)
  • phrases (e.g. "log transportation")
  • word stems where you might want to search for a variety of words at once (fisher* -- which will result in records that contain the words fisheries, fishery, but not fishing, fishes or fish)
  • Other features are available such as limiting by year published, media type, etc.

Look closely at the item records for the results you are getting.  Be sure to look at the subject headings.

Subject heading searches

You may find this feature useful once you have explored your topic and have found how your topic is described by others.  This will help you navigate the catalog a little easier.  For example, in one of the records for my searches on aerial logging, I found these subject headings:

  • Helicopters.
  • Lumbering -- Machinery.
  • Logging, Aerial. 
If I click on these headings from the catalog record, I will find additional titles described with the same subject headings.
 
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Government Publishers of Note

Much of the information about forestry is published by government agencies both in the US and Canada -- these are most often in the public domain (so freely availablle.  The links below are to catalogs within these agencies.

Browse for books by call numbers in Forestry:

The library collection is arranged by call numbers which allow browsing by subject -- so if you find a book of interest, very likely the books on either side will be on the same subject.  Most of the Valley Library's forestry collection is located on the 1st floor in the SD's. 

 Here is how the call numbers relate to Forests and Forestry

SD1-SD669.5

 Forestry
SD131-SD247.5

 History of forestry, Forest Conditions
SD250-SD363.3

 Forestry Education
SD 388-SD389

 Forest Machinery and Engineering, Forest  roads
SD390

 Forest Soils, Forest Meteorology, Forest Microclimatology
SD 391-SD410

Silviculture
SD411-SD428

Conservation and protection
SD 430-SD559

Exploitation and utilization
SD561-SD669.5 Administration. Policy
HD

Economic History - Agriculture & Industries
QH540-QH549.5

Ecology
QK

Botany
QR

Microbiology
TS 880-TS939

Wood Science

IUFRO Proceedings

The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) holds its World Congress every 3 years -- the library's collection of these begins with the 9th in 1936.  However many subsequent volumes have been assigned different call numbers.  The easiest way to locate these is to do an author search on: "IUFRO Congress".